Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-21
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The Best Upon the Coast-The Pride of
Sacramento.

VOh ItDL1t SCHUUlIS.
The Best Upon the Coast-The Pride of
Sacramento.
Among her many advantages Sacramento
can boast of pre-eminence in her educa-
tional institutions. Besides her numerous
private schools and academies. her public
school system is the best in the State Her
elegant school buildings, the pride of her
citizens, are valued at 100000. Their loca-
ton in broad squares surrounded by beau
tiful grounds embowered with trees of
luxuriant foliage, Towering plants and creep
ing vines, is credit to our municipal
government and the admiration of all visit
ors to the Capitol.
The public schools OF Sacramento have
ever been strong inducement for the set
ting here of parents who desire to give
their children thorough education. The
schools are in flourishing condition and
enjoy reputation for excellence equal to
those OF any other community on the
coast. They are under the control of an
efficient Board of Education and a CITY
Superintendent selected by the citizens of
the several wards NJ. r. Beard, the Su-
perintendent, is & thoroughly competent
gentlemen for that honorable and impor-
the schools have fourished. He has in.
augurated many reforms, and put them in
practical operation. The Board of Educa-
ton consists of the following-named gen.
tlemen, who devote much of their time in
protecting every interest of the schools
| and have brought them to that state of
proficiency that it would seem almost i'm
possible to improve upon them First
Ward-William Petrie, J. +. Slater; Sec
ON orI m,
Third Ward-Richmond Davis, A s. Hop
kins Fourth Ward-H Clay Chapman, o.
Z. Erlewine.
THE CORPS OF TEACHERS.
Below is given list of the several schools,
the grades taught therein and the names
of the teachers
High School-W. w. Anderson. Princi-
pal; James II. Pond, First Assistant; Mrs.
E. B. Purnell, Second Assistant; Fred
ericka De Laguna, Third Assistant, Eng
lish (special); Mrs. n. Z. White, Fourth
Assistant and teacher OF French (speciaD.
Sacramento Grammar School-Madison
Babcock, Principal Mary J. Watson, Vice
Principal; Annie c. Weeks first grade
Jennie Burke Marie, Darlington, Minnie
Barkley, second grade; Emma Hughes,
Mrs. Jennie Kilgour, Lizzie Griffin, Lillian
Piper, third grade; Lizzie O'Brien, Addie
J.. Hughes, Orpha Butler, Mary Cronemil-
Ter, Clara Henley, fourth grade
Capital Grammar School,. W. John
son, Principal; Mrs. NJ. D. Merrill, Vice
Principal; Josie Regan, ". Miller, sec
ond grade; Irene Richardson, Amelia
Klippel, Amelia Duggan, third grade
Jennie Anderson, Minnie Sweeney, Inie
ellis, Sue V. Heard, fourth grade.
Harriet Mccormack, Supervising Prin-
cipal Primary Schools.
Fifth Grade-Rosa Coates, Lillian
Knight, Thirteenth and G.; Julia Smith,
Mrs. w. A. Crowell, Seventh and G Laura
Phillips, Annie G. Montgomery, Fourth
end Q; Cannie Mason, Jennie Govan. 0.
between Ninth and Tenth; Lily Blue, Six
teenth and n.
Frazee, Thirteenth and G; Mollie johnston.
Maggie Little, Seventh and G; Lizzie NJ.
Bernard, Nellie Todd, Fourth and Q; Mrs.
NJ. E. Allen, Ida Miller, Tenth and Q
Helen Egl, Sixteenth and n
Seventh Grade-Mrs. Lutte Horton.
Laura e. Hess, Thirteenth and G: Florence
Chapman, Emma Doherty, Seventh and G;
Pauline Eilers, frankie Spaulding, Fourth
and Q; Mary Nagle, Maggie Paine, Tenth
and q BERTHE Piper. Mollie Brown, Six
teenth and n.
Eighth Conditioning: Emma Klein
sorge, Mary Woods, Thirteenth and G:
Carrie Bellmer, Seventh and G: Kate Brier.
Dora Abrams. Fourth and Q; Nellie Ogden.
Lucy Heard, Tenth and Q; Lucy Hinkson.
Sixteenth and n. Afternoon: Mary Nc
Manus, Henrietta Hersom Thirteenth and
G; Dora Davis, Mrs. J. r. Brown. Seventh
and 9; Louisa Smith, Buyrdie Beggs.
Fourth and O. Ada Tenbrook, Mrs A
Winans, Tenth and Q; Mary Griffin, Six
teenth and n.
Ungraded-Mrs. Helen Taylor, ungraded
No. l, Twenty-seventh and j; Laura kim.
assistant, ungraded No. l, Twentv-seventh
and j; Sarah NJ. Jones, ungraded No. 3. O.
between Ninth and Tenth; Mrs. NJ. L. Bas-
sett, ungraded No. 3, Eighteenth and L;
Nellie Miller, assistant ungraded No. 3.
Eighteenth and L; Mrs. NJ. Z. Mumford,
ungraded No. 4, Twenty-fourth and n;
Belle Henley, first assistant ungraded No.
4, Twenty-fourth and n; Eta Bockrath.
second assistant, ungraded No. 4, Twenty
fourth and n; Minnie Kiefer, third assist
ant, ungraded No. 1, Twenty-fourth and n:
Louise Conrad, fourth assistant. ungraded
No. 4, Twenty-fourth and \ Max Lipovitz.
teacher of German.
Substitute teachers-Jennie Powers, Ella
McCleery and Nettie Hopley.
superintendent Beard, in his report for
last month. gives the following figures:
Pupils enrolled-High School, 127; Sacra-
mento Grammar, 557; Capital Grammar,
Az primary, 1895; night school, 6S.
Total, j, ,l64. Average daily attendance
High Schsol, III; Sacramento Grammar.
502; Capital Grammar, so; primary. l.
772; might school, 40. Total, 2S01
SALARIES.
Sacramento pays her teachers as good
salaries as any other city in the State, and
has corps of educators who are not to be
exceiisd by that of any other locality.
Most OF her teaohers-and the best ones,
too-are those who were educated in our
public schools and are graduates of our
High School, which is the best institution
OF that character on the coast. Sacra-
mento can and does fit Rs good teachers for
the profession as does either of the Normal
Schools. The monthly salaries are as fol-
lows: City Superintendent, s225; Principal
High School, $3.50; First Assistant $50;
Second, Third asd Fourth Assistants, 800
Principal Sacramento Grammar School,
$40; Vice Principal, S110; Principal Cap
ital Grammar School, S165; Principal,
slo0; first grade, $50: second, third and |
fourth grades. $75; fifth grade $40; sixth, |
ssSs: seventh grade, $50 eighth grade (half- |
day elasses), $40; Principal ungraded |
schools, $50; assistants, $50 and $65 |
teacher ef German, 500.
PRIZE ESSAYS.
On the anniversary of the birth of Wash
ington, Superintendent Hoitt was invited |
by the Principals of the Sacramento and
Capital Grammar Schools to address the
children. He did 50, and at the close of
his remarks advised them all to read some
well Sritten life of Washington, as well as |
the l;Fes of Adams, Jefferson and Others